Proton says, "Hi."

I took Dramkon to the vet a few weeks ago for a well-dragon check-up. She rode there in a Tupperware box in my bicycle basket. She did not like this. She expressed how angry she was at me for putting her on a bicycle by hissing at me. (which my ordinarily well behaved dragon never does). As we sat together quietly in the waiting room at the vet's office, she calmed herself down and unruffled her scales. Her blood tests came-up odd and she was acting a little funny. I was quite worried about her. The vet started her on antibiotics and told me very strictly to keep her within her ideal temperature range. A few days later she started laying eggs. "Aha!" says the vet, "that explains it!" It's the first time I've ever seen her lay eggs. She got really restless after that. She wanted to run and dig and climb everything in sight. Up and down the space heater, under the bed, up the back of the computer and down the front, through the living room and the kitchen in laps… all day long. I wanted to give her freedom, so to accommodate the vet's temperature request, I chased her around the house with a heat lamp for nearly two weeks.

She has now laid 16 eggs, mostly in the digging box we set-up for her. She looks very tired today. She walked over to her food dish this morning and has spent the whole day lazily munching on chunks of carrots and zucchini.

I have three tanks right now for the fish and newts. The tanks have been named Hogwarts (up high on a shelf), Winterfell (has a chiller in the tank), and Atlantis (furthest tank from my computer). It's important to make sure the creatures are healthy and happy so I've started keeping data on the water quality in the tanks. This means each week I test for: Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, Hardness, Chlorine, Alkalinity, and pH. I chart the data in a spreadsheet. Believe it or not, the first time Arthur and I started doing this it was a date night activity. My husband is awesome.

On Sunday, our friends Aidan and Sarah got married in a grove of redwood trees with a ceremony that referenced Zeno's paradox. It was a beautiful wedding.